Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter De Vries

... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.

Peter De Vries

I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability

Marlene Dietrich

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

Marianne Moore

Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.

Max Miller

My wife is so stupendously ugly it is easier to take her with me than to kiss her goodbye.

Max Lucado

Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.

Max Frisch

The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.

Max Frisch

Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.

Mario Cuomo

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

Mae West

It's easy to get married, but hard to stay that way.

Mae West

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

Mae West

Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.

Merle Shain

Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced.

Merle Shain

We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are and who we will become, so it is left to marriage to make it clear which ones of us are growing in the same directions and which are ships meant to have passed in the night.

Merle Shain

I'm not sure there can be loving without commitment, although commitment takes all kinds of forms, and there can be commitment for the moment as well as commitment for all time. The kind that is essential for loving marriages - and love affairs, as well - is a commitment to preserving the essential quality of your partner's soul, adding to them as a person rather than taking away.

Mason Cooley

Antagonistic cooperation is the principle of all markets and many marriages.

Mason Cooley

The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life.

Mason Cooley

Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation.

Mary Archer

I think we explored the further reaches of 'for better or for worse' than some other married couples.

Mary Augusta Ward

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

Mary Augusta Ward

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

Mary Astell

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

Menander

There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.

Marie Dressler

I have had a couple of marriages, but like every other woman I had a perfect right to them.

Ted Olson

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

Theodore Parker

Marriages are best made of dissimilar material.

Theodore Parker

A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.

Theodor Reik

In our civilization men are afraid they will not be man enough, and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

Margaret Mead

No matter how free divorce, how frequently marriages break up, in most societies there is the assumption of permanent mating, of the idea that the marriage should last as long as both live. . . . No known society has ever invented a form of marriage strong enough to stick that did not contain the 'till death us do part' assumption.

Margaret Mead

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

King Vidor

Take it from me, marriage isn't a word - it's a sentence.

Kin Hubbard

Women seem to be all right on bargains till it comes to picking out a husband.

Michael Bergin

I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.